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The deep-thinking students of Herndon and Sterling walked out of their high schools yesterday to show solidarity with the misunderstood illegal aliens in their midst. Their tiny protest was designed to appeal to the humanity of the Capitol Hill gasbags who are seeking to pass legislation that addresses the immigration mess, if a thinly veiled plan of amnesty addresses the nation's sieve of a border with Mexico. Supporters of illegal aliens are promising to add to the mess, with a national call to boycott work, school and shopping places May 1. This promises to be something of an Illegal Alien...

U.S. allows Muslim 'fox in the henhouse' Guest panelist threatened America, openly supported terror groups Posted: March 20, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern Editor's note: WorldNetDaily is pleased to have a content-sharing agreement with Insight magazine, the bold Washington publication not afraid to ruffle establishment feathers. Subscribe to Insight at WorldNetDaily's online store and save 71 percent off the cover price. By Kenneth R. Timmerman © 2004 Insight/News World Communications Inc. The congressionally funded United States Institute of Peace hosted an event yesterday in Washington on reforming Islam, with a guest panelist who has threatened the United States and openly supported...

Herndon, Va., police are trying to determine who spray-painted pro-immigration graffiti outside the home of the local leader of the Minutemen, an illegal-entry watchdog group, police said yesterday. Police said they received a report Sunday that two messages were found spray-painted on the sidewalk in front of George Taplin's residence. One read: "No One is Illegal." Under a heart-shaped globe, another read: "Love Sees No Borders." Police are investigating the graffiti as a destruction-of-property case. In October, Mr. Taplin founded the Herndon Minutemen, which opposes the town's use of taxpayer funds for a day-laborer center. The center, in the 1400...

Herndon, Va. could be Anytown, USA. Day laborers, many of them illegal immigrants, often clogged a 7-Eleven parking lot, creating unsanitary conditions and disorder. After heated debate, the town last month opened a work center for the jobbers. Order now reigns, but the debate rages on as illegal-immigration opponents seek to shut the center. Herndon's actions reflect a national phenomenon about day laborers: Every day, workers gather in about 500 US parking lots and main streets (and increasingly, work centers), hoping they'll be picked for construction or other jobs by drive-up employers, according to a study released this week by...

A former aide to Rep. William J. Jefferson (D-La.) pleaded guilty yesterday to bribing the congressman to promote high-tech business ventures in Africa. Brett M. Pfeffer, 37, of Herndon, a former president of a McLean investment firm, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Alexandria to conspiracy to commit bribery of a public official and aiding and abetting the bribery of a public official in 2004 and 2005.

A nonprofit that runs a day-laborer center in Herndon said yesterday the center has been a success since it opened last month, and it hopes the center will serve as a model for other communities searching for ways to deal with day laborers. Officials with Project Hope and Harmony said they have managed to get all day laborers, most of whom are illegal aliens, to congregate at the Herndon Official Workers Center. Before the center opened Dec. 14, the laborers congregated about a mile away, at street corners or outside convenience stores in the town. "We're quite encouraged," said Joel...

HERNDON, Va. -- The debate between the Herndon Minutemen and day laborers heats up with the arrival of a new controversial Web site. The Herndon Minutemen is a group that conducts surveillance of day laborers in Herndon, Va. "I am sure there are racists in this country, but they're not in my organization," said George Taplin, president of the Herndon Minutemen. He is responding to a new Web site, weareracist.com. The site was created by LULAC, the League of United Latin American Citizens. "We thought the best thing to do was to set it up as weareracist.com. We do believe...

Sorry for the late notice, we have been swamped with demand. There will be a national day of protest this Sat and we wanted you to have the details. Below you will find complete information. You may want to link up with a protest that is already arranged in your state or you may want to start your own with some friends. Please exercise caution in California, New Mexico, and Arizona as we have received word that the communists, socialists, and Aztlan separatist Goons will be out in some of those areas. Here are the details. For further guidance and...

Anti-illegal immigrant group plans 'Stop the Invasion' protest in Danbury DANBURY — A controversial anti-illegal immigrant group is planning a "Stop the Invasion" demonstration Saturday at Kennedy Park. Latino day laborers gather each morning around Kennedy Park, between Kennedy Avenue and Elm Street, hoping to be hired by contractors. "Hiring illegals at Kennedy Park is a criminal activity. It is against the law," said Paul Streitz, a founding member of Connecticut Citizens for Immigration Control. Streitz' group wants the United States to close its borders, enforce existing immigration laws — and to send undocumented immigrants back to their homelands. Streitz...

In spite of legal proceedings that threaten to shut down a day laborer center funded by Herndon and Fairfax County, some policy and community leaders have moved on to the topic of who should pay for such a center. Demetrios Papademetriou, president of the Migration Policy Institute, had a simple answer to that question, speaking at a press conference in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. "Who should pay for shelters for day laborers? Whoever benefits," Papademetriou said. "And we all benefit. Houses are being built. Goods and services are being produced by day laborers. The benefit is to the community, and...

HERDON, Va. (AP) - The town of Herndon will stop using any portion of its recently opened day-laborer center on Loudoun County land under an agreement with county officials. The publicly funded center has been operating for about a week in a former police station that straddles the line between Loudoun and Herndon. The town will block off one entrance to the center as well as part of the parking lot by January first. Loudoun County Administrator Kirby Bowers asked Herndon Town Manager Stephen Owen this week to shut down the controversial center because it does not comply with county...

The opening of a formal center for day laborers in Herndon on Wednesday brought a new fervor to a debate that has raged since August, drawing roughly as many demonstrators as laborers to the site. Even before sunrise, demonstrators had installed themselves at the perimeters of the Herndon Official Workers Center at 1481 Sterling Road. Two ideologically opposed groups stood intermingled: those protesting the center, and those protesting the protesters. The demonstrators, bracing themselves against temperatures in the low teens, did not at first verbally confront each other, letting the battle play out in the air above them. “Change Your...

The trailer that houses Herndon's day-laborer center, scheduled to open this morning, isn't fancy. But it is clean; it is heated; and it has a restroom. For the laborers who plan to use the center, it's a welcome step up from hanging out on a street corner, in nearby parking lots or outside a 7-Eleven. "It's just amenities we try to provide on site so they don't have to go a distance to get the things that they need," said Bill Threlkeld, director of Project Hope and Harmony, a nonprofit group that will operate the center. "Any degree of initial...

The slate-gray light of a wintry morning hung over the 7-Eleven parking lot just after sunrise yesterday when a murmur rippled through the crowd of men gathered there: "Look, they are coming." Heads turned in unison to a dozen people moving toward them on Elden Street in Herndon. Although the men's clothing -- work boots and bluejeans -- revealed them as day laborers, the new group wore warm winter coats and snug-fitting gloves and carried cameras with long lenses, a camcorder, a couple of walkie-talkies and a clipboard list of license plate numbers collected on previous visits.

The slate-gray light of a wintry morning hung over the 7-Eleven parking lot just after sunrise yesterday when a murmur rippled through the crowd of men gathered there: "Look, they are coming." Heads turned in unison to a dozen people moving toward them on Elden Street in Herndon. Although the men's clothing -- work boots and bluejeans -- revealed them as day laborers, the new group wore warm winter coats and snug-fitting gloves and carried cameras with long lenses, a camcorder, a couple of walkie-talkies and a clipboard list of license plate numbers collected on previous visits. George Taplin of...

The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia is being urged to look into a charge that Herndon officials have violated federal criminal conspiracy laws by creating a day-labor center that helps illegal aliens. U.S. Attorney Paul J. McNulty has received from Rep. Tom Tancredo, Colorado Republican, a letter accusing Herndon officials of conspiracy in seeking to aid illegal aliens, the congressman's office said. In his letter, Mr. Tancredo noted that officials for Project Hope and Harmony -- a group of community leaders and churches that will operate Herndon's day-labor center -- have refused to screen job seekers based...

Dismissive reference is made to illegal immigrants using fraudulent identification to work. We remember, even if The Post does not, that it was the illegal immigrant community in Northern Virginia that enabled several of the Sept. 11 hijackers to obtain fraudulent IDs, which they used to murder Americans.

Unwittingly, the leader of a local group whose self-appointed mission is to photograph, spy on and bother undocumented day laborers in the town of Herndon, put his finger on the dilemma of illegal immigration the other day. "What we want, bottom line in Herndon, is for the illegal aliens to leave," said George Taplin, leader of the town chapter of the Minuteman Project. "And if there is no work, they will." Ah, but there you have the problem: There is work -- enormous amounts of work, particularly in the Northern Virginia suburbs. In fact, in an area with virtually no...

The Minutemen, a national organization that seeks to limit illegal immigration into the United States, has set up shop in Herndon and is adding fuel to the debate on how to handle the day laborers who seek work at informal sites throughout Northern Virginia.

It is a time to celebrate for the tax-and-spend and illegal-alien supporters of Virginia after the gubernatorial election of Democrat Timothy M. Kaine. The self-styled Minutemen of Herndon videotaping the contractors who pick up the day laborers loitering next to the 7-Eleven hard by the Dulles Toll Road might as well shut down their operations and go home to bone up on their Spanish. Virginia has placed its welcome mat out to Latin America: Give us your tired, your poor, your $10-an-hour illegal aliens. We will provide them with day centers that come with television sets tuned to Spanish-language channels,...